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Confrontation at Standing Rock: The Future of Indigenous Resistance in the United States
By James W. Zion, Esq.
April 2017
The protest led by indigenous peoples against the construction of the $3.8 billion, 1,172-mile Dakota Access Pipeline has drawn tens of thousands of “water protectors” from across the U.S. In the words of author James Zion, Esq., it “is the culmination and a symbol of the long history of insults to Indian lands, rights and traditions.” Zion, a Native American law expert and member of NCCLP ‘s Board of Directors, frames this battle in the ongoing and historical activism of Native Americans, fighting to preserve Indian lands, rights and traditions against larceny for profit by large corporations, insulated from liability by government policy.
Kill the Indian, Save the Child - One Hundred Years of Indian Boarding Schools
By Dr. Kay McGowan
October 2012
In 1819 Congress created a national program to instruct Native Americans in agriculture, reading, writing and arithmetic. By the late 1800s, the law was used to fund Indian boarding schools as part of a federal program to “civilize” Native children. The author details the economic, cultural and psychological damage wrought by the forced removal of children, stripping them of their identify and heritage.
Apartheid: American Style The Battle For the Soul of Black Mesa
By Marsha Monestersky
July 1999
South Africa’s notorious group Areas Act enforced tribal and racial homelands and forcibly relocated millions of black South Africans, shocking many Americans. But few of us realize that similar policies here in the United States have resulted in massive relocation of the Dineh (Navajo) Indians from their homes in the Black Mesa region of northern Arizona. Three thousand more stand to be forcibly relocated in February 2000 – for the benefit of mining interests – unless action is taken now.